This research is aimed at examining the best forecasting model for rice price at wholesale price. Monthly data of rice from 2010:1 â 2017:12 are used for this research and three trend model, i.e., MA, Decomposition and Single Exponential Smoothing are applied in which the selection of the best model is based on the lowest value of MAPE, MAD, and MSE or MSD. This research finds that the best forecasting model is MA(2).Keywords: Rice, Forecasting, Wholesaler.

Gaduhan is one of agribusiness pattern committed by farmers for assistance in his business capital. Andini Muyo livestock group has received government assistance in the form of funds to implement PSBP and PPBB. Cattle breeders were given to membersâ group by profit-sharing system. This research was aimed at analysing the financial feasibility of cattle breeder bussiness on âpenggaduhâ system after receiving two types of PSBP assistances and its sensitivity. Data dari fourty seven respondents censused were analysed descriptive and quantitively using NPV, IRR, PP, Net B/C, and Gross B/C indicators. The results showed that the gaduhan system was unfeasible financially. Â Keywords: Feasibility , Gaduhan, PSBP, PPBB

The purpose of this study was to determine the pattern of the decision of farmers about salak in choosing the marketing channel and what factors influence what is done by salak farmers in choosing the marketing channel in Parsalakan village, West Angkola District, South Tapanuli District. North Sumatra. Based on the results of research, decision-making pattern of salak farmers in choosing marketing channel is dominated by husband and wife team roles are equal. While the results of statistical analysis of farming experience provide a significant effect on the decision of farmers. While age, cash requirement, length of formal education, distance, the number of dependents of the family and the area of land partially do not give a significant effect on the decision of farmers in choosing marketing channels.Keywords: the pattern of decision-making, factors that influence decision-making, farmers salak, marketing channels

This study aims to determine lifestyle of Noahs Barnâs consumer, to know the process of consumer purchase decision, and to find out how much influence of lifestyle on consumer decisions in Noahs Barn. There are two characteristics in this study. Descriptive and inferential. The type of study used in this study is quantitative by survey method. The population used in this study is all consumers who visited Noahs Barn with systematic random sampling, and 100 respondents have been obtained. The analysis technique used is simple linear regression. The hypothesis is tested by using T test with 5% significance level. The results of the study showed that lifestyle variable have positive and significant influence on purchasing decisions in Noahs Barnâs consumer. Lifestyle variable is able to explain the variance of purchasing decision equal to 32,1% and the residue equal to 67,9% is influenced by other variables was not examined in this study.Keywords: Coffee, Lifestyle, Coffee Shop, Purchase Decision

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The purpose of this research was analyzing the impact of the existence of infrastructures such as construction, electrical, highway (state, province and regency city road ), Transport and Telecommunication sectors on the production and areal expansion of oil palm plantations in both South Sumatera and Bengkulu.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â This research was expected to be useful as a scientific empirical guidance for policymakers in determining the infrastructure priority scale which is built based on their contribution to increasing oil palm production and its area.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The research empirically identified how the impact of the existence of infrastructure (construction, electricity, highways (state, province, and city districts road), transport and telecommunication on the oil palmâs production and erea, in both its magnitude and sign. In the regression equation which used in this study, production and land area are positioned as dependent variable whereas development variables of construction, electricity, highway (state road, province and regency/city road), transport and telecommunications are positioned as the independent variable. This research used time-series data from BPS publications with quarterly periods from 1996 to 2012.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Referring to the parameter of the elasticity value of infrastructure to oil palm production which showed greater than 1, then it can be concluded that the priority infrastructure which built in Bengkulu is the construction and for South Sumatra should be built electricity infrastructure to boost the oil palm production increasing. Meanwhile, electricity infrastructure that should be built for boosting the expansion of oil palm in Bengkulu is Electricity. There was relatively no priority infrastructure in terms of spurring the expansion of palm oil.

Crystal guava is one of guava variety which currently has the high opportunity and potential to be developed in Indonesia. Waaida Farm as a company engaged in crystal guava farming in Sumedang District can only meet 5,71% of its demand every year. Therefore, Waaida Farm needs to expand the cultivation area to optimize the crystal guava potential. The expansion constrained by financial source. Crystal guava farming in Waaida Farm is not bankable yet eventhough the business itself has run for six years. The objective of this research is to analyze financial feasibility of crystal guava farming at Waaida Farm. The research was conducted using qualitative descriptive design and case study technique. The data collection methods used were observation, interview and literature study. From the financial aspect, crystal guava farming at Waaida Farm is feasible to be implemented, based on the calculation results of investment criteria using interest rate of 18,75%. The calculation results of NPV is positive which is Rp 5.982.165, IRR is over the established interest rate which is 28,43%, Net B/C is greater than 1 which is 1,59, and payback period is 5 years, shorter than the project term analysis which is 10 years. The sensitivity analysis showed that the variable of the decreasing of production number is more sensitive than the variable of the increasing of production cost. Nevertheless, the 10 percents change of every variable still make the crystal guava farming feasible to be implemented.Keywords: Crystal Guava, Financial Feasibility

Kepahiang district is one of the Robustaâs coffee production centre in Bengkulu Province. With total area size of Robusta coffee about 454.073 hectares, the production was about 1, 2 million ton in a year. The production is available for more than 30 local coffee processor at Kabupaten Kepahiang. A great contribution to an economy, robusta coffee processors were providing jobs, market guarantees and added value.Â Today, the ninety percent of production was delivered to outside processors while only ten percent was for local processors. The business, its self-facing fluctuation of output and input prices, highest risk, interest rate, and etc. How was the sensitivity level of the financial feasibility of coffee processor at Kepahiang district? Financial feasibility sensitivity level was assessed by the three changing indicators namely input availability, interest rate and input cost. The results show that business of coffee processor at Kepahiang district is still profitable and feasible under the three changing indicators.Keywords: sensitivity, feasibility study, Robusta coffee, processor

ABSTRACTThis study aimed to know the income to the tobocco farming and marketing channels, distributionÂ Â and to determine the marketing marjin in Doloksaribu village Pagaran districts North Tapanuli district.Â This study uses descriptive and do purposive method location. Determination of farmer respondents is done by Stratified Random Sampling technique as much as 50 farmers, while to know the marketing channels used snowball sampling method. Types of data collected included primary data and secondary data.Â This study uses data were analyzed the farm income of tobacco farmers, analyze marketing channels and marketing margins.The results showed the average income of cash tenant farmers in the Doloksaribu village of Pagaran District is Rp.23.994.011,58 per hectare in one growing season is greater than the share tenant farmers on average earnings of Rp.21.051.624,77per hectare per cropping season and owner operatorRp.17.708.316,37per hectare per cropping season. The main marketing channel in the study area is from tobacco farmers (producers) to the consumer (the tobacco company). Tobacco marketing margin in the village Doloksaribu is very low (0) in the absence of marketing institutions that play a role in these activities so that the channel marketing is also short